New Zealand in the Second World War

D-Day

Links

www.liberation60.gouv.fr
French Defence Information and Communication Delegation website feature about D-Day. Includes history, interviews and maps (in French and English).

www.normandie44lamemoire.com
A good map of the landing beaches and surrounding villages. (Click on the Union Jack to get English language version.)

www.normandybattlefields.com/battle_sites.htm
Click on to aerial photographs of the beaches and other sites of battle.

www.ddaymuseum.co.uk/
The website of the D-Day Museum in Portsmouth. Contains pictures and explanation of the contemporary Overlord Embroidery (83m long) inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry in France.

www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/launch_ani_overlord_campaign.shtml
Animation with timeline of Allied advance between D-Day and August 1945.

See also our military links section

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